SOURCE: "Kenzaburō Ōe: The Early Years," in World Literature Today, Vol. 58, No. 3, Summer, 1984, pp. 370-73.
[In the following essay, Sakurai discusses the major influences on Ōe's early literary career, such as Japan's military defeat in 1945 and the works of such authors as Jean-Paul Sartre and traditional Haiku poets.]
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